Grand View Media buys Shooting Sports Retailer

Published on November 18, 2013.

Birmingham, Ala.—Grand View Media Group announced it has acquired Shooting Sports Retailer from Marilyn Karaban, owner of SSR Communications. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
SSR includes a bimonthly print edition, a digital magazine edition, a Hot Gear e-blast and an SSR Insider bimonthly e-newsletter.
Grand View, a subsidiary of EBSCO Industries, also publishes Archery Business and the Black's Sporting Directories. Grand View has been managing the publishing operations of SSR since January of last year.
In September, Grand View also purchased b-to-b media company Moose River Media.